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Marty Kaplan / The Huffington Post:
Journalism's Slo-Mo Suicide  —  Dan Froomkin's "White House Briefing" column, which appears on washingtonpost.com, is a sparkling daily anthology of the deceit, disingenuousness, evasiveness, hypocrisy and lack of accountability of the W administration.  What Froomkin does is artfully compile links …
Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
The Future of the Washington Post  —  Washington Post national political editor John Harris launches a creepy assault on Dan Froomkin's Post Online White House Briefing column http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ content/blog/2005/12/12/BL2005121200655 _ pf.html.
Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips Gang Co-Founder, Is Executed  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 - Stanley Tookie Wiliams, a condemned gangster whose execution drew more national and international attention than any here in decades, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 12:35 this morning at San Quentin State Prison.
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Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Europeans Outraged at Schwarzenegger  —  VIENNA, Austria - The execution of convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams sparked outrage Tuesday throughout Europe, which has a deep aversion to capital punishment sustained by the painful memory of state-organized murder during the Nazi era.
Adam Tanner / Reuters:   Calif. killer turned peacemaker Williams executed
Mark Kleiman / The Huffington Post:
Blogger Power and Cory Maye  —  Cory Maye — in case you haven't been following Radley Balko — is a black man with no criminal record condemned to death in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, for shooting a police officer who broke down his door in the middle of the night looking for a drug stash that wasn't there.
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Hillary Profita / CBS News:
Cory Maye: "An Interesting Test Of The Power Of The Blogosphere."  —  While the fate of Stanley "Tookie" Williams drew plenty of attention in the in the mainstream media, many in the blogosphere - on the right and the left (Battlepanda has assembled a list of them, conveniently organized …
Associated Press:
Update 1: Prosecutor Issues Subpoenas in DeLay Case  —  A Texas prosecutor has issued subpoenas for bank records and other information of a defense contractor involved in the bribery case of a California congressman as part of the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Zogby:
Bush Job Approval at 38% After edging above 40%, it fades again  —  President Bush's job approval rating languishes under 40%, despite an upturn in the economy and a public relations onslaught defending the role of the U.S. military in rebuilding Iraq, a new telephone poll by Zogby International shows.
Karen W. Arenson / New York Times:
Saudi Prince Gives Millions to Harvard and Georgetown  —  Harvard University and Georgetown University each announced yesterday that they had received $20 million donations from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi businessman and member of the Saudi royal family, to finance Islamic studies.
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Charles A. Radin / Boston Globe:
Saudi donates $20m to Harvard
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Brad / THE BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: SECURITIES FRAUD LITIGATION FILED AGAINST DIEBOLD, INC!  —  Eight Current and Former Executives Named as Co-Defendants, Including former CEO O'Dell and New CEO Swidarski  —  Class Action Suit Alleges Fraud, Insider Trading, Manipulation of Stock Prices, Concealment of Known Flaws …
Tom Lasseter / Knight Ridder:
Iran gaining influence, power in Iraq through militia  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iranian-backed militia the Badr Organization has taken over many of the Iraqi Interior Ministry's intelligence activities and infiltrated its elite commando units, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Investigation Finds More Than 120 Abuse Victims
Navid Iqbal / dailyrecord.com:
Newsweek's Fineman blasts Bob Woodward  —  Political reporter says famed journalist's mission has changed  —  DAILY RECORD  —  MADISON — Howard Fineman, Newsweek's chief political correspondent, said Monday night in the first program of a Drew University lecture series …
John Dickerson / Slate:
The Grinch Who Doctored Photos  —  The RNC's fraudulent new ad.  —  The RNC's new Web video "Retreat and Defeat" starts with a flat-screen TV playing clips from Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Sen. John Kerry.  As they speak, a white flag waves over their faces while ominous music moans.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Arctic Oil Gets an Administration Gusher  —  Interior Secretary Gale Norton, campaigning to win oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, had the urgency of a saleswoman falling short of her monthly quota.  —  "ANWR would supply every drop of petroleum for Florida for 29 years …
rawstory.com:
Fitzgerald was long suspicious Rove had hidden evidence; Not swayed by last minute testimony, lawyers say  —  A few weeks after he took over the investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson in early 2004, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had already become suspicious …
Discussion: Booman Tribune ~ Boo!

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